Integration of finite element analysis and optimum design on gear systems

摘要

This work establishes a batch module "integration of finite element analysis and optimum design" by taking gear systems as testing examples. This batch module consists of I-DEAS, ABAWU/Standard and MOST software, which serve as the preprocessor, the numerical solver and the optimizer, respectively. A simple an practical method was developed, by which this module was enabled to search for contact nodes And elements and to automatically define the contact surfaces for contact analysis. A simple gear-pair system and a complete planetary gear system were successively used as testing examples for this integrated module.